[89] in Athena Bugs
Re: lpr program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Mon Mar 28 12:08:05 1988
To: Ricky Cardenas@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, MIT '88 <penguin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 26 Mar 88 06:14:27 -0500.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 88 12:06:30 EST
From: Win Treese <treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
>
> It seems that the 'lpr -p' option doesn't work correctly. While
> it should use 'pr' to format the files, the printer doesn't print the
> file at all. It goes all the way up the queue, then disappears from the
> queue in a flash and doesn't get printed. I believe 'print', the shell
> script designed to call on 'lpr -p', behaves the same way.
> Ricky
Thanks for the bug report. What printer (or printers) seemed to have this
problem? We thought we had taken care of this problem, but apparently some
of the printer servers are still broken. If you can tell me which ones are
broken, we can fix them as well.
Win Treese
Athena System Development
